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The Honorable I. B. Kerfoot, presiding judge of the district court of Fairfax County, Virginia, and the gallant Major Thomas C. Yancey, late of the Confederate army, had been the colonel's guests at his hospitable house in Bedford Place for a period of six days and six nights, when my cards -- two -- were given to Chad, together with my verbal hopes that both gentlemen were within.
My visit was made in conformity with one of the colonel's inflexible rules, -- every guest under his roof, within one week of his arrival, was to be honored by a personal call from every friend within reach.